The Stories That Shaped You
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fictional_fansWhat are the works of fiction you'd consider particularly influential in forming your tastes?
I've been wondering this because I've been rereading a fic I loved when I was fifteen, and I've realised it contains a lot of themes I've sought out or included in my writing ever since. The self-loathing protagonist has an intense, unhealthy, antagonistic, sexually tinged relationship with a duplicate of himself who may or may not be imaginary; there are so many things I love in that one sentence!
Animorphs, Life on Mars and Silent Hill 2 were also big influences on me. Characters bonding under intense adversity, characters in situations where it's hard to know what's real and what isn't, characters struggling to cope with the things they've done: all things I love in fiction, and all things that can be traced back to these canons I experienced at a formative age.
So those are the things that shaped my taste in fiction; what are yours?
I've been wondering this because I've been rereading a fic I loved when I was fifteen, and I've realised it contains a lot of themes I've sought out or included in my writing ever since. The self-loathing protagonist has an intense, unhealthy, antagonistic, sexually tinged relationship with a duplicate of himself who may or may not be imaginary; there are so many things I love in that one sentence!
Animorphs, Life on Mars and Silent Hill 2 were also big influences on me. Characters bonding under intense adversity, characters in situations where it's hard to know what's real and what isn't, characters struggling to cope with the things they've done: all things I love in fiction, and all things that can be traced back to these canons I experienced at a formative age.
So those are the things that shaped my taste in fiction; what are yours?
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Date: 2020-04-23 12:25 am (UTC)I have to ask: what's the story behind your icon? I spent a moment trying to work out whether it meant you liked or disliked Andre Norton before I realised you had 'Andre Norton novels' on your list of influences.
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Date: 2020-04-23 02:03 am (UTC)I think there was a conversation about the way that women SF writers keep getting left out of the history, and a bunch of us were talking about how long Norton was writing SF.